OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 444

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 444
Transliteration
l {y}ʾs¹ bn ʾʿl bn ngyt bn ʾḫḏ
Translation
By {Yʾs¹} son of ʾʿl son of Ngyt son of ʾḫḏ

Interpretation

Commentary
There is a hammer mark at one end of the line of the second letter. It might obscure the fork of a h or it could be a hammered dot of the letter y. The y of the third name has a hammered dot instead of a loop

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Special Letter Forms
y loop a hammered dot
Technique
Chiselled & incised

Associated Drawings
KRS 444 d/1
Associated Inscriptions

  • Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
Site
Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0021072
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